November 18th, 2008 - 5:19 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 18 (ANI): The word game Scrabble has once again become the country''s best selling board game thanks to the increasing popularity of brain games.
The board game, which is a ...
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November 15th, 2008 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Edinburgh, Nov.15 (ANI): An Edinburgh-based company, Canongate Books, has won the right to publish Barack Obama''s latest book Change We Can Believe In.
Canongate Books will release the book on December 11.
The ...
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November 13th, 2008 - 5:01 pm ICT by IANS
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London, Nov 13 (IANS) Prince Charles turns 60 Friday and hanging on his coat tails is the eternal question: will he be King?Only Queen Elizabeth II knows the answer. And her comment ...
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November 13th, 2008 - 4:28 pm ICT by IANS
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Havana, Nov 13 (IANS) Cuba has sustained losses worth more than $10 billion in three hurricanes that have devastated the Caribbean island in the past three months, President Raul Castro has said."We're ...
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November 9th, 2008 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
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Melbourne, Nov 9 (ANI): Popstar Melissa Etheridge has voiced her opinion against the banning of same-sex marriages, declaring that if California ...
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November 8th, 2008 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 8 (ANI): A film showing Turkey''s founding hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, as a frustrated loner and heavy drinker with a smoking habit, has caused an uproar in the country ...
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November 3rd, 2008 - 6:53 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 3 (ANI): With substance abuse on the rise, around 42,000 Brit pupils have been sent home for alcohol or drug-related reasons in the past four years.
The finding made on ...
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October 25th, 2008 - 9:00 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 26 (IANS) Wanted in a dozen criminal cases, the younger brother of slain gangster Ambika Prasad Patel alias Thokia has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday.Chote Lal alias ...
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October 24th, 2008 - 9:23 pm ICT by IANS
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Hyderabad, Oct 24 (IANS) GoSecure Inc, a US-based company, Friday launched its secure and collaborative business networking portal.The portal www.gosecure.com is a web 2.0 networking tool, which not only enables members to ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 1:06 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 10 (ANI): A digital time capsule was beamed in a high-powered radio wave in the direction of Gliese 581c, an "Earth-like" planet 20.5 light years away, with messages on ...
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October 9th, 2008 - 2:46 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 9 (ANI): Darren Gough has admitted that he is jealous of England''s 10 million pound Stanford match.
With the game worth around 560,000 pound a man for the winning ...
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October 7th, 2008 - 12:15 pm ICT by ANI
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London, October 7 (ANI): A leading British genetics expert says that humans will not evolve anymore.
Professor Steve Jones of University College London argues that, at least in the developed world, ...
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October 5th, 2008 - 2:08 pm ICT by IANS
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Bhubaneswar, Oct 5 (IANS) One of Orissa's most wanted Maoist leaders has claimed responsibility for the Aug 23 killing of a Hindu leader that triggered anti-Christian attacks in the state in which ...
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October 3rd, 2008 - 3:07 pm ICT by IANS
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Manila, Oct 3 (DPA) The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said Friday it would spend $500,000 in the next three months to help children displaced by nearly two months of fighting in ...
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October 1st, 2008 - 12:29 am ICT by IANS
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London, Sep 30 (IANS) American R&B singer Beyonce Knowles' wig collection has been estimated to be worth half a million dollars.According to a friend, Knowles, who is married to US rapper JAY-Z, ...
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September 22nd, 2008 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Kuala Lumpur, Sep 22 (IANS) Foreign maids working in Malaysia are subjected to discrimination and violence and the law is too weak to help them, a series of reports by two major ...
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September 22nd, 2008 - 1:46 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sep 22 (ANI): Pop diva Kylie Minogue has joined forces with British tabloid The Sun and charity ChildLine to fight child abuse and violence.
After seeing the growing rate of victimized ...
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September 22nd, 2008 - 10:09 am ICT by IANS
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Bangalore, Sep 22 (IANS) India's tech hub Bangalore has more than half a million senior citizens, of whom nearly 90 percent are without any pension benefits, forcing many of them to go ...
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September 21st, 2008 - 9:48 pm ICT by IANS
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Bhubaneswar, Sep 21 (IANS) At least 17 people have been killed and more than half a million remain marooned in about 2,000 villages in Orissa as officials were struggling Sunday to reach ...
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September 12th, 2008 - 4:25 pm ICT by IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 12 (IANS) Come Monday, Jet Airways will become the first private airline in the country to operate flights from all the three international airports in Kerala, when it begins daily ...
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September 8th, 2008 - 11:41 pm ICT by IANS
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Kolkata, Sep 8 (IANS) India's Olympics bronze medallists, wrestler Sushil Kumar and boxer Vijender Kumar, were both richer by half a million rupees Monday.The cash prize was handed over to the duo ...
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September 2nd, 2008 - 1:50 pm ICT by IANS
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Nairobi, Sep 2 (DPA) Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized over half a million dollars raised to support US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.Ndidi Okereke-Onyuike, the director-general of the ...
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August 31st, 2008 - 6:23 pm ICT by IANS
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Mumbai, Aug 31 (IANS) The Maharashtra government's new policy to construct half a million rental homes for the poor in the city would particularly benefit migrants from other states, central Minister for ...
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August 28th, 2008 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Aug 28 (ANI): One in seven children in Britain -- almost 1.8million -- now live in totally work-free households, the majority with a single parent, according to the Office for ...
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August 26th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
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Jakarta, Aug 26 (DPA) Indonesia issued a tsunami warning Tuesday after a powerful earthquake struck parts of the western tip of Java and southern Sumatra province of Lampung, seismologists said.The quake, measuring ...
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August 18th, 2008 - 7:15 pm ICT by IANS
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London, Aug 18 (IANS) Away from battlefields of South Ossetia, enemies Georgia and Russia have been fighting a propaganda battle - run by PR agencies based in Brussels, a newspaper reported.And while ...
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August 17th, 2008 - 5:15 pm ICT by ANI
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Melbourne, Aug 17 (ANI): Queen of pop Madonna sparkled and shimmered as she celebrated her 50 th birthday on August 16.
Madge was wearing a diamond necklace and earrings worth half ...
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August 16th, 2008 - 4:13 pm ICT by IANS
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Islamabad, Aug 16 (DPA) At least 13 people were killed and 15 injured Saturday in fresh sectarian clashes between rival Shia and Sunni Muslim tribesmen in northwest Pakistan, media reports said. Scores ...
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August 11th, 2008 - 5:08 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Aug 11 (ANI): Diabetes is linked to one in 10 deaths among the bulk of the population in England, according to new figures.
In most cases, the disease indirectly kills by ...
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August 7th, 2008 - 3:45 pm ICT by IANS
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Jammu, Aug 7 (IANS) The Amarnath land row has caused a steep decline in pilgrimage traffic to a famous hill temple here - from 20,000 daily to a few hundreds now - ...
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